Officine Panerai

Go for PAM 36 or PAM 40.

Iconic and like hen's teeth to find!!!

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go together.... watches of taste and distinction.

Luisa...Nicolas did a very good review of these two watches....its worth reading that.

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PAM 36 simply astonishing !!!! I do not have words for this beauty !!!! I did read the review!!!!

(I personally prefer the PAM 40) but I would put it in the group of "neo-vintage" pieces such as pre-A, A series etc. These are all still modern pieces and quite different to vintage or even pre-V watches.

 

No wrong decision here,

 

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What strap is that on the 36? She's a beauty!=)

Much Mahalos,

Greg
"Hawaiian Timer

with all respect but a watch that is 'worth' 18K listprice and that is sold on the grey market at 4 - 5 times that price ??? is way out of the line for me .... you pay a lot for the hype IMO in this case, initially it's a basic 3 hands watch with an Angelus movement but be honnest it's not haute horlogery you pay for .... but it's being part of something

vintage is an other story ... they are harder to find (at least those who are still in the original state) and there's the history that lies behind, my problem with vintage is that you need an expert to determine if the watch you want or get offered is not a sort of fabriciaton of different parts of different watches put together at high price to make you believe you own something special ...

if you spent let's say 100K on a Patek  you payed at least for something like a great brand with an horlogical history and a complication that few can repeat or do better . The chance your Patek is going to be worth half the price is rather unthinkable,  the problem with Panerai is that today you buy something that is worth only what others want to give fo it , but you pay a lot for in fact a most simple watch not comparable with a complicated Patek IMO.

but like i always say, buy what your heart tells you, just keep some things in your rear mind

for the advice!  This is why i think that Baron is right when he says that PAM36 is somethink to think about!

The Pam 203 remains strong after all these years.

I don't want to say that Panerai is distancing it self too much from its core DNA but it may be spreading itself thin with so many models.

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Bill

pull the trigger on the 36b?

It is fun to look back on the older post and one comment and they come back to life.  Just as relevant as the day they were posted.

Billl

sometimes I stumpled upon a few really old posts like this one and started to think back how I embarked on this journey, especially in the beginning and like many, asked really naive questions knowing very little but filled with passion and emotion back then.. and still very much the same today, just with more knowledge but with the same amount of passion like before.

I too look back not so long ago at my questions that show the novice beginnings.

I has been a great journey to say the least made a lot of friends and a lot of watches befriended me LOL.

I love your selections.

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Bill

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Just this one alone makes you a big Rolex collector alone to add one more feather to your cap.

rolex.watchprosite.com

I love it.

Waiting to hear more on your Rolex adventures.

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Bill

Rolexes along the way, but comparing to hunting the Panerai, excluding the vintage, they usually come by in more complete state. 

The full set is always illusive.  But you can't beat a perfect dial....

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Bill